China is to launch a manned space mission, official media says, as the Asian giant works towards setting up its own space station.

Towns and villages across northern Rakhine state were deserted yesterday, as terrified residents fled a deadly military crackdown on

Huge crowds of weeping Thais and saluting soldiers lined the streets as the body of late King Bhumibol Adulyadej is borne through Bangkok, a day after his death left an apprehensive country facing an uncertain future.

The Maldives said yesterday it will leave the Commonwealth, weeks after the organisation warned it could be suspended

Two policemen are killed in coordinated attacks by an unknown group on posts along Myanmar's border with Bangladesh, an official and police say.

A rocky planet discovered in the "habitable" zone of the star nearest our Sun may be covered with oceans, researchers at France's CNRS research institute say.

Nine Australian men who provoked anger in Malaysia by donning skimpy swimwear bearing the Muslim country's national flag at a Formula 1 race are released without charge.

Firebrand Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte told US President Barack Obama to "go to hell" yesterday, as he threatened to end

Myanmar yesterday scrapped a law used by the former military government to silence political activists, which threatened jail for

Legendary musician Sachin Dev Burman’s birthday is on October 1. His mother is Raj Kumari Nirmala Devi, the royal princess of Manipur and his father the second son of Ishanachandra Dev Burman, Maharaja of Tripura

The decade long Rosetta mission ends with the closest look at a comet ever, reports Space.com citing the European Space Agency (ESA).

World championship leader Nico Rosberg strikes the first blow of the Malaysian Grand Prix weekend with the fastest lap in free practice on Friday, almost half-a-second quicker than Lewis Hamilton.

Following Indian aggression on the Line of Control that killed two Pakistani soldiers, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairperson Imran Khan tells reporters he will respond to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Raiwind March.

Indian forest department officials promise strict action after a python attacked a man when a group was trying to click a photo with it.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Cuba on Thursday for the first visit to the country by a Japanese premier, saying

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday invited the United Nations' chief and international human rights experts to investigate allegations of widespread extrajudicial killings, but insisted they also face him in a public debate.

Islamic militants in the Philippines yesterday freed an Indonesian sailor abducted at sea, days after the gunmen released a Norwegian

A Bangladeshi businessman is deported from Malaysia allegedly for supplying arms to a terrorist organisation, local daily The Star reports today.

The SWIFT inter-bank messaging network plans to send daily reports to clients to help them more quickly identify unauthorised payment instructions like those used by hackers to steal $81 million from Bangladesh's central bank in February.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte allegedly once shot dead a justice department agent with an Uzi submachine gun while